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tartu2222 says
I would add that it is heavily industrialized, dirty, and a bit dangerous. It also requires a visa from Moscow to get in.
aussie_oz says
The Region is now called Kaliningrad Oblast and had been the northern part of the german province East Prussia untill the end of world war 2. Then Russia occupied the eastern part of Poland (today belonging to Ukraine – "giving" Poland parts of the former German Reich instead, e.g. Silesia and southern East Prussia), the three Baltic States, and the Kaliningrad (till then called Königsberg) area.
When the Soviet Union broke into sovereign countries Kaliningrad Oblast stayed with Russia because it could not become a state by itself due to its heritage: it never had been a sovereign country but "only" a part of a bigger state. Certainly Russia wanted (and wants) to keep Kaliningrad; it's of strategic importance as an access to the Baltic Sea – although not directly connected anymore to the rest of Russia..